Deep Sky Derelicts: Definitive Edition

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About the game

Deep Sky Derelicts

In a grim dystopian future, where mankind has scattered across the galaxy and the human society has split into two distinct classes, you are a poor stateless outcast forced to live off scraps from derelict alien stations and ships in the outer space, yet you dream of becoming a privileged citizen and living on the surface of a habitable planet, enjoying non-synthetic air, water and food. A fabled alien derelict ship somewhere within the Deep Sky sector of space is your voucher for a citizenship and a promise of cozy life on a hospitable planet.

Hire and control a squad of up to three mercenary characters and set on to explore derelict ships within your reach from the scavenger's base. Searching the derelicts for loot and clues, you come across many friendly inhabitants and traders, but more often – various enemies. Challenge and defeat them in tactical turn-based fights, where randomly-drawn cards form your changing arsenal of combat actions, gain experience for yourself and your crew, loot dead bodies, resupply and upgrade once back at your base. The scavenger's home ship gives you the opportunity to heal and level-up your mercenaries, recruit new ones, equip them, upgrade their gear or recharge energy for life support during missions.

Deep Sky Derelicts - New Prospects

Deep Sky Derelicts: New Prospects, the first expansion to Deep Sky Derelicts, introduces a number of remarkable upgrades and new features, opening up exciting new prospects for the scavengers roaming the DSD world.

Making planetfall, getting lost in blizzards and sandstorms, engaging with scavenger colonies and clearing out monster lairs – not only does the New Prospects expansion give a hefty boost to the variety of scenery and diversity of encounters out there, it also makes exploration even more exciting, tense and suspenseful than ever before. Get ready to have the risk-reward trade-off honed to a knife edge...

To help you cope with all these previously unseen perils, though, we’ve greatly reinforced you with many new and enhanced tools and possibilities, right at your fingertips. These include sneaking, ambushing enemies, remote scanning, en-route medical treatment, environmentally-mediated combat actions, and even an entirely new class – the Miner. Life has never been as difficult or exciting as now!

Deep Sky Derelicts - Station Life

Station Life is the second expansion to Deep Sky Derelicts that, as its name suggests, focuses on turning the station, your scavenger home and safe haven, into a livelier and more varied place to be, more useful and versatile hub of scavenging operations, and a more compelling experience overall.

The overhauled station brings new possibilities to further upgrade and customize your crew by crafting custom weaponry and equipment, re-training and neurally enhancing your squad members, and even changing their looks to your liking. The DLC also throws at you a handful of randomly generated but constantly challenging encounters and timed events that involve other station dwellers and may easily catch you off guard while always putting either your combat prowess, your luck or your business acumen to a test. To top it all off, the local bar now offers you a bunch of high-profile bounty contracts to pursue during your derelict raids for unique trophies and hefty coin rewards. Oh, and there is a new recruit class, the Inventor, waiting for you there!

Key features

Deep Sky Derelicts

• Fresh take on turn-based combat with cards
• Refined sci-fi comic book look & feel
• Endless customization options for characters and scavenging teams
• High replay value thanks to procedural generation of content
• Story of the human society divided within a dystopian universe
• Two game modes: story and arena

Deep Sky Derelicts - New Prospects

New exploration mechanics:

• Stealth, Rush and Normal exploration stances now allow you to sneak past enemies or ambush them, or simply conserve energy and proceed as usual.
• Run a Focused Scan to reveal all objects and activity in a remote location.
• Field treatment helps restore wounded squaddies’ health and temporarily boost your card draw when away from home.

A wide range of new environmental conditions:

• Global conditions (derelict-wide): dynamic gravity, plague ship, radiation waves and more.
• New local conditions, including hazardous planetary conditions, such as blizzards and sandstorms.
• Other defining conditions such as Ghost Ship (derelicts full of stealthy, dangerous enemies), and Tourist Trap (more loot, more dead scavengers...).
• Enemy groups respan on derelicts, including previously visited ships.

New locations to visit apart from the derelicts: ice and desert planets.

• Settlements: confined, guarded areas that belong to various factions, such as scavenger colonies, pirate forts and scourge nests. These can all be interacted with in multiple ways, for example by taking contracts, trading or pillaging.
• New environmental combat actions that can be used in exchange for energy during fights, as an alternative to playing regular cards. Environmental actions can significantly increase your tactical options.
• 10 new enemies, including deadly new variations on the Cobra and Skink, as well as the brand-new Dreadwurm, Stone Shepherds and Myrmexes.
• New character class – the Miner. Custom look, ability tree and exclusive new heavy ranged weapon, the Blaster, plus extension mods and new cards!
• New equipment offering exciting new options for gearing up your scavengers, such as regenerating shield cores, as well as illustrious new mods to make them fully shine.
• A dozen compelling new side missions to accomplish, on planet surfaces and inside derelicts.

Numerous UI updates and improvements:

• Left-side consumables menu on the scanner screen.
• New buttons for Normal and Focused Scans on the scanner screen.
• Stance selector button on the scanner screen.
• Easy-to-spot ship and room condition indicators on the scanner screen;
• Minor and major ship condition info on the star map screen.

Deep Sky Derelicts - Station Life

New and enhanced station facilities:

• Crafting Workshop (extension of the Research Workshop) that allows to craft any type of equipment after disassembling an item of the corresponding type.
• Advanced Medical services: Experimental Surgery Department and Neural Reprocessing Facility that allow:
  - installing neural implants that enhance various skills and abilities of individual crew members;
  - re-training crew members by resetting and re-allocating their ability points; (available to base game owners free of charge!!!)
  - and customizing crew members' visual appearance including changing characters' portraits and individual elements of their scavenger suits. (available to base game owners free of charge!!!)
• New technology upgrades in the Research Workshop related to crafting and implants.

Station random encounters:

• Defending the station from randomly intruding raiders;
• Peaceful communication with station dwellers and fellow scavengers;
• Bargaining with various kinds of traders including shady dealers coming with high-risk high-reward offers;
• Brawling with rival scavenger crews;
• All set in new station environments with unique room backgrounds.

New contracts and missions:

• 10 brand-new Bounty contracts to locate and eliminate elite enemy groups that pose an increased threat to the player with their special gear and traits but promise hefty rewards;
• A dozen new side missions to complete and a bunch of new NPC encounters to discover and enjoy.

Miscellaneous

• A new playable class: Inventor - a sturdy, melee-combat oriented character that lacks shields but applies unique health regeneration abilities on the battlefield to compensate for that;
• New equipment types especially useful for hybrid class specializations, along with new illustrious mods and new handy consumables;
• 6 new nasty enemy types of varied power and nature to further increase diversity on board and across derelicts.